Wow. Susan, you are amazing.

No need to be so apologetic here, either. I think everyone here understands being at that point where you just don't have anything. more. left. - even if we've never been all the way there ourselves, we've been close enough not to question your experience. And anyway ... YOU DID IT, with "a little help from your friends" you DID pull yourself out of that hole.

Good reminder, too - one of the things I took out of my seat pack before the triathlon in July was my mylar blanket, and given the temperatures at that time of year and how little room I have in my seat pack, I hadn't put it back in. It's going back before my next ride!